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BLACHAN KHAO SUAY (Thai Bagoong Rice)

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Here is another rice meal that you'll surely love to eat and crave for more, because Thai food is addictive. This dish is a bit sweet and the degree of hotness depends weather the shrimp paste you use is hot and spicy.  KHAO, in Thai's cookery term means "RICE" or other grains.Well, this is one of the recipe on my college International cuisine manual. What I love with this dish, is the perfect blend of four taste. Sweet, sour, salty, and spicy, which is Thai's signature taste. And I love spicy foods! so, weather you like spicy or not, you will surely love this rice meal. :)

Ingredients:

Garlic, minced

Onion, finely chopped

Cooking oil

Tocino, cooked and slice into strips

Left over steamed rice

Eggs, scrambled, fried, and chiffonade

Green mango, cut into strips

Sugar

How to cook:

Cooked tocino in boiling water. When cooked, fry in oil till brown. Remove and set aside. Using the oil where the tocino was cooked, saute the garlic, onion and hot an spicy bottled shrimp paste till it gives aroma. Add the rice and sugar. Stir fry. Make sure that the shrimp paste is evenly distributed throughout the rice. Transfer it to the dinner plate. Add the green mango, tocino and scramble eggs.

Actually, the real recipe of this rice meal has fish sauce and shallots. But because I don't have shallots in my kitchen, I just use the red medium sized onion. And the shrimp paste is already salty, that's why I didn't put a fish sauce. 

Cooks File:

• Dried shrimp paste can be substitute with bottled bagoong which is available in all leading supermarket. It is suggested that you buy the hot and spicy shrimp paste so it counteracts nicely with the tocino.
• It also suggested that you use a shallots. These are small red onions that are stronger than the medium sized onions.
• Stir frying of any fried rice require only a showtime otherwise it will turn mushy.